Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the
Middle AgesMiddle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted
from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the fall of the
Western
Roman EmpireRoman Empire and merged into the
RenaissanceRenaissance and the Age of
Discovery. The
Middle AgesMiddle Ages is the middle period of the three
traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the
medieval period, and the modern period. The medieval period is itself
subdivided into the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages.
Population decline, counterurbanisation, invasion, and movement of
peoples, which had begun in Late Antiquity, continued in the Early
Middle Ages. The large-scale movements of the Migration Period,
including various Germanic peoples, formed new kingdoms in what
remained of the Western Roman Empire
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Types Of Inhabited Localities In Russia
The classification system of the types of inhabited localities in
Russia, the former Soviet Union, and some other post-Soviet states has
certain peculiarities compared with the classification systems in
other countries.[citation needed]Contents1 Modern classification in Russia1.1 Urban localities
1.2 Rural localities2 Historical terms
3 See also
4 References
5 External linksModern classification in Russia[edit]
During the Soviet time, each of the republics of the Soviet Union,
including the Russian SFSR, had its own legislative documents dealing
with classification of inhabited localities.[1] After the dissolution
of the Soviet Union, the task of developing and maintaining such
classification in
RussiaRussia was delegated to the federal subjects.[2]
While currently there are certain peculiarities to classifications
used in many federal subjects, they are all still largely based on the
system used in the RSFSR
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Administrative Center
An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local
government, or a county town, or the place where the central
administration of a commune is located.
In countries which have French as one of their administrative
languages (such as Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland or many African
countries) and in some other countries (such as Italy, cf. cognate
capoluogo), a chef-lieu (French pronunciation: ​[ʃɛfljø],
plural form chefs-lieux (literally "chief place" or "head place"), is
a town or city that is pre-eminent from an administrative perspective.
The ‘f’ in chef-lieu is pronounced, in contrast to chef-d'oeuvre
where it is mute.Contents1 Algeria
2 Belgium
3 Luxembourg
4 France
5 Jordan
6 New Caledonia
7 Francophone West Africa
8 Russia
9 Switzerland
10 Tunisia
11 United Kingdom
12 Popular culture
13 See also
14 ReferencesAlgeria[edit]
The capital of an Algerian Province is called a chef-lieu
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Constitution Of Russia
The current
ConstitutionConstitution of the Russian Federation (Russian:
Конституция Российской Федерации,
Konstitutsiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii;
pronounced [kənsʲtʲɪˈtutsɨjə rɐˈsʲijskəj
fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨɪ]) was adopted by national referendum on December
12, 1993. Russia's constitution came into force on December 25, 1993,
at the moment of its official publication, and abolished the Soviet
system of government. The current
ConstitutionConstitution is the second most
long-lived in the history of Russia, behind the
ConstitutionConstitution of 1936.
The 1993 Constitutional Conference was attended by over 800
participants. Sergei Alexeyev, Sergey Shakhray, and sometimes Anatoly
Sobchak are considered as co-authors of the constitution
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Oblast
An oblast (/ˈɒbləst/ OB-ləst) is a type of administrative division
of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Ukraine, and the
former
Soviet UnionSoviet Union and Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
Official terms in successor states of the
Soviet UnionSoviet Union differ, but
some still use a cognate of the Russian term, e.g., voblast (voblasts,
voblasts', [ˈvobɫasʲtsʲ]) is used for regions of Belarus, and
oblys (plural: oblystar) for regions of Kazakhstan.
The word "oblast" is a loanword in English,[1] but it is,
nevertheless, often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or
"region"
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Soviet Union
The
Soviet UnionSoviet Union (Russian: Сове́тский Сою́з, tr.
Sovétsky Soyúz, IPA: [sɐˈvʲɛt͡skʲɪj
sɐˈjus] ( listen)), officially the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics (Russian: Сою́з Сове́тских
Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик, tr. Soyúz
Sovétskikh Sotsialistícheskikh Respúblik, IPA: [sɐˈjus
sɐˈvʲɛtskʲɪx sətsɨəlʲɪsˈtʲitɕɪskʲɪx
rʲɪˈspublʲɪk] ( listen)), abbreviated as the USSR
(Russian: СССР, tr. SSSR), was a socialist state in
EurasiaEurasia that
existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national
Soviet republics,[a] its government and economy were highly
centralized. The country was a one-party state, governed by the
Communist Party with
MoscowMoscow as its capital in its largest republic,
the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
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USSR
The
Soviet UnionSoviet Union (Russian: Сове́тский Сою́з, tr.
Sovétsky Soyúz, IPA: [sɐˈvʲɛt͡skʲɪj
sɐˈjus] ( listen)), officially the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics (Russian: Сою́з Сове́тских
Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик, tr. Soyúz
Sovétskikh Sotsialistícheskikh Respúblik, IPA: [sɐˈjus
sɐˈvʲɛtskʲɪx sətsɨəlʲɪsˈtʲitɕɪskʲɪx
rʲɪˈspublʲɪk] ( listen)), abbreviated as the USSR
(Russian: СССР, tr. SSSR), was a socialist state in
EurasiaEurasia that
existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national
Soviet republics,[a] its government and economy were highly
centralized. The country was a one-party state, governed by the
Communist Party with
MoscowMoscow as its capital in its largest republic,
the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
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ISO 3166-2ISO 3166-2 is part of the
ISO 3166 standard published by the
International Organization for
StandardizationStandardization (ISO), and defines
codes for identifying the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or
states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. The official name of the
standard is Codes for the representation of names of countries and
their subdivisions – Part 2:
Country subdivisionCountry subdivision code. It was first
published in 1998.
The purpose of
ISO 3166-2 is to establish an international standard of
short and unique alphanumeric codes to represent the relevant
administrative divisions and dependent territories of all countries in
a more convenient and less ambiguous form than their full names
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Pregolya River
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing
towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases a river
flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without
reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using
names such as stream, creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no
official definitions for the generic term river as applied to
geographic features,[1] although in some countries or communities a
stream is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are
specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in some parts of
the United States, "burn" in Scotland and northeast England, and
"beck" in northern England. Sometimes a river is defined as being
larger than a creek,[2] but not always: the language is vague.[3]
Rivers are part of the hydrological cycle
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Russian Census (2010)
The Russian
CensusCensus of 2010 (Russian: Всеросси́йская
пе́репись населе́ния 2010 го́да) is the first
census of the Russian Federation population since 2002 and the second
after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Preparations for the census
began in 2007 and it took place between October 14 and October 25.[1]A 10-ruble coin commemorating the 2010 CensusContents1 The census
2 Results
3 See also
4 References
5 External linksThe census[edit]
The census was originally scheduled for October 2010, before being
rescheduled for late 2013, citing financial reasons,[2] although it
was also speculated that political motives were influential in the
decision
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